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Raghu Menon elected as IPDC chairman | Union Information and Broadcasting Secretary Raghu Menon has elected as the Chairman of the Inter-Governmental
Council of the International Programme for Development of Communication (IPDC). The Inter-Governmental Council of the IPDC was established in 1980 and
implements
national, regional and inter-regional projects in the areas of promotion of freedom
of expression and media pluralism, development of community media, capacity
building
and promotion of international partnership. With this, India became the first
developing country to have occupied the coveted IPDC chairmanship. It may be
noted
that, since its inception, the Chairmanship had always remained with developed
countries. According to the Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry, India's
candidature was endorsed by Asia Pacific Regional Group and supported by
countries
from Africa, Arab and Latin American Region. India won the election with 23 out
of 37 votes against Switzerland who got 14 votes. Menon, in his acceptance speech,
thanked the members of the Inter-Governmental Council for reposing faith in his
leadership and assured his full commitment for strengthening programme
implementation
under IPDC's mandates. Apart from media development as a vehicle for fostering
good governance, democracy and transparency, Menon also highlighted the need for
media to be inclusive so as to ensure spread, reach and coverage of media
accessibility
to all the citizens. Inclusiveness would result in bridging the urban rural divide,
reaching economically under-privileged sections of the society and to make full
use of the technological advance to provide access to information at affordable
costs. In his address, Menon underlined the spin-off effect of the projects under
implementation by IPDC in influencing policy formulation by Member States and
underlined the importance of greater generation of resources for IPDC. India has
contributed 1.4 million dollars to IPDC programme since its inception and is strongly
committed to the fund and its programmes. India will be Chair of the
Inter-Governmental Council of IPDC till its next session in 2012. |
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